The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Onyx and pearl jewelry is once more
fashionable.
Some of the newest fur boss taper from
the middle to the ends.
Mendelssohn's sister wrote several Of
his exquisite "Songs Without Words. y
The Women's Club of Milwaukee have
raised $25, 900 toward building a club
house.
Queen Victoria is the oldest reigning
sovereign In Europe excepting Emperor
William.
Plush and velvet, with dots of con-
trasting color, are much used for mill
hnery purposes.
One of the fancies of Queen Margha-
rita of Italy is strong preference for
women physicians.
Mrs. Horace Helyar, the wife of the
British Secretary of Legation in Wash
ington, is famous beauty.
Women have been elected on the school
boards of Springfield, Brockton, Maiden,
and New Bedford, Mass
Short mantles with the back of jet are
very stylish. Passementerie and fur make
the trimming of these garments.
Some of the newest English tailor-made
dresses and jackets are ornamented with
bands of leather machine-stitched on.
Many of the pretty and dressy short
wraps are lined with brillant-hued
plush which shows in the stylish shiny
sleeves.
A Japanese lady has recently been
engaged on the editorial staff of one Of
the most important political newspapers
in Toxic.
Some of the newest fans for full-dress
toilets have a bracelet and bows and
flowing ends of ribbon attached for hold
ing them.
Broadcloth in all the day colors, with
astrakhan medallions of contrasting
tints, is used for panels for dresses of
plain cloth.
F. w. Kennie, of San Francisco, says
that city has 300 young women who are
heiresses to $500, 600 or more each, and
all are unmarried.
Miss Allen, who has done much to pro-
mote physical development in young
women, has established gymnasium for
their use in Boston.
A thick silk cord is used to finish the
gathered waists of little ehildren's
dresses, instead of belt, being sewed on
to cover the join at the waist.
Some bonnets have the trimming so
high and with so pronounced outlines
that they resemble the helmets worn by
the Hessians who surrendered at York
town.
White corduroy is used by Partisan
ladies and children for party dresses.
Valenciennes and other laces and bands
of ostrich plumage are used to trim these
dresses.
A travelling man who has made a
business of counting the people in rail-
way stations makes the assertion that the
women travellers outnumber the men two
to one.
Mile. Heykel, after rigid examina-
ton, has received the degree of NJ ID.
from the University of Hesingford, in
Finland. She is the first finnish woman
thus honored.
A lady who has been employed at the
Office of the Municipal Commission at
Moscow has been appointed chef du
bureau, having given evidence of excep-
tional capacity.
Horseshoe muffs are q novelty. They
are made of the material of the dress, in
bag shape, and have horseshoe of bead
ed psssementerie or of plush or fur set
upon the front.
Gloves of dressed or undressed kid are
equally popular for street wear, and they
may be plain or stitched in self or con-
trasting colors. Tan, brown, olive or
gray are the preferred colors.
Tailors are making costumes exceed
ingly plain. Vests of velvet, cloth or
plush, or plastrons braided in military
STYLE are the embellishments permitted
in the severe style at present in vogue.
Jerseys are still worn, but they have
scarcely any resemblance to those for
merly in vogue. They are now made to
fit the figure perfectly, and have all the
seams arranged with whalebones like
dress bodice. Many of them are elabor-
ately trimmed
In the last census of Scotland the total
number of females engaged in definite
occupations, in 1881, was 1885, the
proportion of these to the total female
population of five years or upward was
20.6 per cent The number OF wives not
engaged In specific occupations is not
stated in the Scotch census.
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